This is an archive of my 2019 email newsletter and public notebook. It won’t be posted here forever, so, poke around while the poking’s good!
Fiction offerings
My Father the Druid, My Mother the Tree
The Unbeatable Deck of Ronan Shin
Featured posts
Fortnite pastoral
They rebooted the world.
Don't take the money
Boom, bap.
How to make h'rous
A recipe for the curious.
News from the Republic
A map of a small town; a collection of great newsletters.
Notes from the quest factory
Tools and techniques related to AI text generation. I wrote this for like twelve people.
Reckoning with Detective Comics
I want to talk about a creative act of reckoning and, maybe, redemption.
Previous newsletters
Week 51, an empire-spanning search
Week 47, the Jaws of the commons
Week 46, the soul of the steel man
Week 45, because I am, of course, afraid of the librarians
Week 43, popular, wide-ranging, functional
Week 42, helpful messages between practical, determined people
Week 41, wince of appreciation
Week 39, features of a ninja house
Week 38, concise and just the right amount of critical
Week 36, so... outer space is one solution
Week 35, going directly to identifiable nerds
Week 34, kid-to-kid transmission
Week 31, bring the pleasant chaos
Week 30, all over the housetops
Week 29, as part of a now-deleted conversation
Week 28, shivelight and shadowtackle
Week 27, a contemporaneous record
Week 26, set a course for the aesthetic of my youth
Week 25, running a ladder factory
Week 23, spinning along one path and not another
Week 22, and every time, the Dark Lord wins
Week 20, the curiosity has gained an avatar
Week 16, the things they love ping-ponging
Week 15, a wayward planet whacked
Week 13, no vital information withheld
Week 11, looser than you'd think
Week 9, opinionated and customized
Week 7, a series of interlinking devices, debates, and visions
Week 5, some kind of shell of a crab
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